The Wine windows font is unreadable. Changing the font size in winecfg/graphics-tab does not help.
How to go about fixing this?
Wine windows font unreadable
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Re: Wine windows font unreadable
Try using winetricks to get the right fonts.
Additionally, you could enable antialiasing using this script made by Igor Tarasov:
Additionally, you could enable antialiasing using this script made by Igor Tarasov:
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#!/bin/sh
# Quick and dirty script for configuring wine font smoothing
#
# Author: Igor Tarasov <[email protected]>
WINE=${WINE:-wine}
WINEPREFIX=${WINEPREFIX:-$HOME/.wine}
DIALOG=whiptail
if [ ! -x "`which "$WINE"`" ]
then
echo "Wine was not found. Is it really installed? ($WINE)"
exit 1
fi
if [ ! -x "`which "$DIALOG"`" ]
then
DIALOG=dialog
fi
TMPFILE=`mktemp` || exit 1
$DIALOG --menu \
"Please select font smoothing mode for wine programs:" 13 51\
4\
1 "Smoothing disabled"\
2 "Grayscale smoothing"\
3 "Subpixel smoothing (ClearType) RGB"\
4 "Subpixel smoothing (ClearType) BGR" 2> $TMPFILE
STATUS=$?
ANSWER=`cat $TMPFILE`
if [ $STATUS != 0 ]
then
rm -f $TMPFILE
exit 1
fi
MODE=0 # 0 = disabled; 2 = enabled
TYPE=0 # 1 = regular; 2 = subpixel
ORIENTATION=1 # 0 = BGR; 1 = RGB
case $ANSWER in
1) # disable
;;
2) # enable
MODE=2
TYPE=1
;;
3) # enable cleartype rgb
MODE=2
TYPE=2
;;
4) # enable cleartype bgr
MODE=2
TYPE=2
ORIENTATION=0
;;
*)
rm -f $TMPFILE
echo Unexpected option: $ANSWER
exit 1
;;
esac
echo "REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
\"FontSmoothing\"=\"$MODE\"
\"FontSmoothingOrientation\"=dword:0000000$ORIENTATION
\"FontSmoothingType\"=dword:0000000$TYPE
\"FontSmoothingGamma\"=dword:00000578" > $TMPFILE
echo -n "Updating configuration... "
$WINE regedit $TMPFILE 2> /dev/null
rm -f $TMPFILE
echo ok